The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDRonald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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